Showreel

We chat with Ro Bright,  CEO TILDE and featured filmakers Ada Tzinis and Izzie Harris. TILDE runs from May 1-9 across community spaces, venues and cinemas featuring features, shorts, panels and the drive in. Check out the programme here.

We chat with filmmaker Ian Darling about his sessions at the Sorrento Writers' Festival around the importance of Australian stories.

We chat with writer/ director  about his film Alphabet Lane. Starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Nicholas Denton this darkly comic film takes by the hand and leads us into the isolation ot the Australian rural landscape. Opens in cinemas on 23 April but you can meet the filmmaker at Nova on the 19th at 4pm.

First up a chat with Nathalie Abbott about her leading role in The Deb here. The film completed in 2024 is Rebel Wilson's directorial debut. It brings an all singing and dancing cast to rural Australia with a coming of age story at the centre of it. We follow with a chat with filmmaker Fiona Cochrane here and her new film Rod Quantock: Comedy Warrior premiering at ACMI as part of the Comedy Festiv...

We chat with dancer Conor Bann-Murray, a member of  Brent Street, who is one of the featured dancers in Luke Cornish's Dance for Your Life given the opportunity to go to London to audition for a place at Dean Lee's dance company Shapehaus. Dance for Your Life takes us just a step further in exploring the dance industry from the hit series Dance Life.

We go to a Q&A held at Cinema Nova between Flick Ford and Director/ co writer of Jimpa Sophie Hyde & actors Aud Mason-Hyde and Daniel Henshall. The film is showing at Nova.

The Melbourne Women's Film Festival is 10 years old with a bumper festival running from March 19-23. Premiere features, shorts, documentaries, panels and industry networking. We talk with Festival Director Sian Mitchell.

We chat with filmmaker Kasimir Burgess about Iron Winter, a chronicle that takes us into Mongolia's Tsakhir Valley, following the exploits of Batbold, 18, and his friend Tsaaganna, entrusted with safeguarding a herd of 3,000 horses during the deadliest winter on record. It is a coming of age tradition which has been in process for 100s, if not, a thousand years. With climate change everything is a...

We chat with Dave Klaiber Director and creator/producort Will Alexander, founder of independent creative studio Heckler, about their film Truth South which documents the emotional journey of the Winning and Dean families as they join in sailing the Sydney to Hobart 25 years after the death of 6 sailors, including John Dean, in the 1998 race. The film is in cinemas from 5th March and on Netflix.

We chat with writer Jem Splitter and actor Page Joy Ryans about Displaced a six part web series also screening on Channel 31 Wednesdays at 9pm March 4/11/. If you missed out on first two episodes tune into YouTube. A rollicking yarn built around Aa depressed, dysfunctional physicist accidentally sent back in time tries to fix her future by mentoring her troubled 14-year-old self. Lots of laughs an...

We chat with filmmaker Jordan Giusti about Floodland a film which documents the personal stories of the Lismore floods from 2022. Floodland, a deeply moving story of love, loss, and land, is screening at Nova on Wed 25th Feb at 6:30pm. The film focus' on community response. The screening will be followed by a Q&A featuring the director and key participants in the film.

Filmmaker James Richetson gives a first hand account of the police riot on Feb 9th in Sydney. The peacful demonstration was calling out the NSW & Federal Governments' invitation to Israeli PM Herzog into Australia, despite the arrest warrant from the Hague for incitment of genocide.  

If there are just two films you watch to understand the travesty of the NT and Queensland situation when it comes to fracking then Rachel O'Reilly's films Infraction and Northern Waters are the ones. We speak to the filmmaker about these important pieces of works that outline the stuggle for the future of the environment and first nations voice. Northern Waters is showing at Coral Futures at Linde...

Today we are chatting to expatriates Sarah Jayne Portelli and Ivan Malekin about their film After the Act. As with all their films After the Act is squarely rooted in traditions of arthouse and slow cinema with a strong dash of observational intimacy. They are back in town and are screening After the Act at our very own Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood at 7pm tonight the 11th of December. There will...

Tristan and Timothy Kenyon whose film Changing Track focusing on the paralympic cycling team which has done a national Q&A screenings over the last month with a national release on Dec 3 to celebrate  International Disability Day. This interview explores the filmmaking process the two brothers took to make the film.

Today we chat with screenwriter/ filmmaker Nandita Chakraborty about Shared Table: Regional Heroes which brings the stories of people from diverse and refugee backgrounds who have made rural destinations their home. The CALD Community Voices are holding a red carpet premiere at Hoyts, Melbourne Central 2 Dec, 6pm.

We speak with the cinematographer of a new field Bay Views for All documenting the demolition of Barak Beacon Public Housing Estate, launching at From Housing Crisis to Dwelling Justice, a free public event bringing together community & advocates to reflect on the state of housing justice in #Naarm/#Melbourne & beyond. Event details:An opportunity to learn, connect & contribute to urgent conversat...

Two doctors in Melbourne are using psilocybin to help ease the anguish of patients at end of life, and the results they have seen are remarkable. We talk with filmmaker Lynette Wall worth about her film Edge of Life which follows the journey of discovery opened by their clinical trials.

Yaara Bou Belhem joins us to talk about Yurlu I Country which follows the last year of a Banjima Elder Maitland Parker in his journey to preserve his culture and heal his contaminated homeland. This is the story of Wittenoom, asbestos and the biggest contaminated site in the Southern Hemisphere. Unfinished business screening in cinemas during November.

Today we chat with the co-director's of the film Journey Home, David Gulpilil, Maggie Miles and Trisha Morton-Thomas opening in cinemas on Oct 30th.

Today we talk with Stephen Gaunson here, RMIT film expert, on the screening of For The Term of His Natural Life at the Capitol on Sunday 26th Oct at 1pm. The most expensive silent film ever made in Australia as the talkies exclipsed the silent stage. Once in a life time event. Curator of the upcoming British Film Festival (BFF 2025), Kim Pelalas here, joins us to discuss the festival highlights. S...

First up we talk with Simon Troon here from the Environmental Film Festival 2025 running at various locations starting 16th Oct - 23 Oct. Secondly we chat with writer/director Kiah Roach-Turner here about Beast of War starring Mark Coles-Smith out in cinemas on 9th Oct.

We speak with the director James Morcan and lead producer Gil Ben-Moshe for the Australian indie movie ‘Anno 2020’, which was shot during the height of the pandemic in 5 countries, 4 continents and in 17 different cities. The film is a kaleidoscope which contains multiple plots happening simultaneously in different parts of the world, as we find characters seeking redemption, forgiveness, reconcil...

An exerpt from Documentary Australia's Masterclass into fundraising and relationship building with Sal Balharrie and Petrina Dorrington (Like My Brother). For the full webinaire and others from the series go to here.

Talking with filmmaker Loren Clarke about her first doco Also John Clarke is an exploration of the artist process. A great adventure a must watch.